Pregnancy associated, optic disc drusen related visual loss
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Optic disc drusen and episodic visual loss.
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عنوان ژورنال: Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1395-3907
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0420.2005.00525.x